 | William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - 272 ページ
...recollect, in my manhood, the opportunities of learning which I neglected in my youth; that through every part of my literary career I have felt pinched and...upon a sound foundation of learning and science." In his fifteenth year, he entered his father's office as an apprentice, as it was intended that he... | |
 | William Makepeace Thayer - 1875 - 298 ページ
...recollect, in my manhood, the opportunities of learning which I neglected in my youth; that through every part of my literary career I have felt pinched and hampered by my own ignorance ; and I would this moment give half the reputation I have had the good fortune to acquire, if by so doing... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 462 ページ
...recollect in my manhood the opportunities of learning which I neglected in my youth, that through every part of my literary career I have felt pinched and...upon a sound foundation of learning and science." To his collegiate acquisitions he added in later life what may be called a " free-translation" knowledge... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 424 ページ
...recollect in my manhood the opportunities of learning which I neglected in my youth ; that through every part of my literary career I have felt pinched and...part upon a sound foundation of learning and science. I imagine my father's reason for sending me to so few classes in the College, was a desire that I should... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1884 - 616 ページ
...considering what that language is, and who they were who employed it in their compositions." And again, " I would at this moment give half the reputation I...rest the remaining part upon a sound foundation." Within the range noticed, however, his "appetite for books was as ample and undiscriminating as it... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - 1884 - 154 ページ
...recollect in my manhood the opportunities of learning which I neglected in my youth ; that through every part of my literary career I have felt pinched and hampered by my own ignorance and I would this moment give half the reputation that it has been my good fortune to acquire, if, by doing... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1885 - 296 ページ
...recollect in my manhood the opportunities of learning which I neglected in my youth ; that through every part of my literary career I have felt pinched and...part upon a sound foundation of learning and science. LIFE OF SCOTT. ABRIDGED MAINLY FBOH LOCKHART AND HUTTON. AS Scott grew up, entered the classes of the... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1886 - 328 ページ
...recollect in my manhood the opportunities of learning 1 which I neglected in my youth ; through every part of my literary career I have felt pinched and hampered by my own ignorance, and I would at this moment give half the reputation I have had the good fortune to acquire, if by so doing... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1887 - 200 ページ
...recollect in my manhood the opportunities of learning which I neglected in my youth ; that through every part of my literary career I have felt pinched and...this moment give half the reputation I have had the 4*5 good-fortune to acquire, if by doing so I could rest the remaining part upon a sound foundation... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1887 - 184 ページ
...recollect in my manhood the opportunities of learning which I neglected in my youth; that through every part of my literary career I have felt pinched and...this moment give half the reputation I have had the 4*5 good-fortune to acquire, if by doing so I could rest the remaining part upon a sound foundation... | |
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... it is with the deepest regret that I recollect in my manhood the opportunities of learning which I neglected in my youth ; that through every part of my literary career I have felt pinched and hampered by my own ignorance ; and that I would at this... 
